B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm, which adds seven new stallions to its roster this year, has raised the fee for its signature stallion, Malibu Moon, from $60,000 to $70,000.
Keeneland’s 11-day November breeding stock sale continued its strong upward trend Sunday at its seventh session, with more hefty gains in all categories and a $190,000 racing or broodmare prospect the day’s high point. Castleton Lyons purchased the session-topper, the 3-year-old Unbridled’s Song filly Sanadaat, a half-sister to stakes winners Super Frolic and Stormy Frolic.
A weanling Street Sense colt, a half-brother to graded winner Richbabe, brought the sixth session’s top price of $250,000 in the last minutes of the auction Saturda during Keeneland's November mixed sale. Vail Equine bought the April 4 foal, a bay colt, from Dapple Stud’s agency.
WinStar Farm is holding the line on all but one of its stud fees for the 2012 breeding season. Ken Troutt’s breeding farm near Versailles, Ky., will double Bellamy Road’s stud fee from $10,000 to $20,000.
Vinery, which stands stallions in Kentucky, Florida, and New York, has announced its stud fees for the 2012 breeding season.
Keeneland’s November breeding stock sale posted a fifth consecutive day of dramatic gains across the board Friday at its fifth of 11 sessions. And, once again, it was a horse from the late Ned Evans’s Spring Hill consignment featured prominently. This time, a $510,000 Quiet American weanling, a full sister to the dam of 2005 Horse of the Year Saint Liam, topped the session.
Ashford Stud has put a $35,000 stud fee on 2010 juvenile champion Uncle Mo for his first year at stud.
Victor’s Cry, winner of last year’s Shoemaker Mile, and 2011 Indiana Derby winner Wilburn have retired from racing and will enter stud next year. B. Wayne Hughes’s Spendthrift Farm in Lexington, Ky., has bought both. Hughes will stand Wilburn at his farm but will stand Victor’s Cry at Michael Byrne’s Park Stud in Canada.
A colt by the successful young sire War Front sold for $190,000 at Keeneland’s November sale on Wednesday, a record auction price for a West Virginia-bred weanling. Kingsbury Stables bought the colt from 84-year-old West Virginia breeder Buck Woodson.
John Phillips’s Darby Dan Farm in Lexington, Ky., has hired Robert Hammond as its general manager. . . . Grade 1-winning millionaire Gayego will enter stud next year at Canada’s Norse Ridge Farm, where he will stand for $6,500 in Canadian funds. . . . Track-record-setting Grade 3 winner Niagara Causeway will relocate within Kentucky from Buck Pond Farm to Margeaux Farm for the 2012 breeding season, but he will retain his 2011 fee of $3,000 for the coming year.
